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Dec 16-20 Snow/Mix events - Going over like a fart in church


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Is there really any accumulating snow in SNE south of the Pike in the next 340 hours on the GFS? Lol. I miss the days of the GFS/AVN showing multiple blizzards per run.

Aside of the 20-27thish ...after that I think we just rinse and repeat this same tired pattern.

Congrats on breaking the 11,000 post mark. But man, this region really needs to catch a break. We're at the point when even snow haters wouldn't mind a little.

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LOL

At least we get to track foggy, cold, drizzly, raw London days...better than having the sun out like last winter.

We need an over-performer to lift everyone's spirits. Not sure that's in the cards this week but it's been several winters now (outside of SW CT) since we've had some nice accumulation busts to the plus side.

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We need an over-performer to lift everyone's spirits. Not sure that's in the cards this week but it's been several winters now (outside of SW CT) since we've had some nice accumulation busts to the plus side.

The biggest storm that I've seen in nearly 2 years was the 4" of glop that melted by 10AM the morning following Snowtober last fall. Last month I got 3.5", but even that melted by noontime the next day.

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Congrats on breaking the 11,000 post mark. But man, this region really needs to catch a break. We're at the point when even snow haters wouldn't mind a little.

I love snow, it's killing me that my kids are staring at a green lawn but at least we can drive to ski country and see snow before Christmas this year.

It's a discussion board, all I'm saying is I don't have the optimism many have going forward after about 12/27. Maybe we're seeing a reload and winter comes in guns blazing around/after the first, but JMHO we need this longwave pattern to shift a little west or WNW for us. Move the western highs back more towards Idaho, the highs to our north a little further west so we end up with a storm track that's further east a 100 or so miles. All I see in the real long term aside of that one week period is CNE/NNE cashing in, those of us to the south are not well as modeled.

Will says the UKIE and CMC are cold, maybe that bodes well for the Euro.

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We need an over-performer to lift everyone's spirits. Not sure that's in the cards this week but it's been several winters now (outside of SW CT) since we've had some nice accumulation busts to the plus side.

You want an over-performer just lower your expectations. Expect a tenth of glaze on Sunday for example.

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You want an over-performer just lower your expectations. Expect a tenth of glaze on Sunday for example.

Easily accessible model data and more models runs per day has also contributed to raised expectations...we see one great soluton out of 87 model runs 102 hours before the event and then people cry bust when it doesn't pan out.

And despite being one of the biggest snow lovers here, I am not feeling the least bit sorry for some people lamenting over the fact they haven't gotten a good storm less than 2 years removed from one of the snowiest months on record for many who post here. Get back to me when they live through another 1980s-early 1990s period.

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The biggest storm that I've seen in nearly 2 years was the 4" of glop that melted by 10AM the morning following Snowtober last fall. Last month I got 3.5", but even that melted by noontime the next day.

Shovels and rock salt have been collecting dust in my basement for 2 years. I can't believe I haven't had to shovel since 2010. This needs to end soon.

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Easily accessible model data and more models runs per day has also contributed to raised expectations...we see one great soluton out of 87 model runs 102 hours before the event and then people cry bust when it doesn't pan out.

And despite being one of the biggest snow lovers here, I am not feeling the least bit sorry for some people lamenting over the fact they haven't gotten a good storm less than 2 years removed from one of the snowiest months on record for many who post here. Get back to me when they live through another 1980s-early 1990s period.

The days when 6" of snow was a KU.

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The days when 6" of snow was a KU.

4 consecutive winters without a 10" snowstorm at ORH. Only time on record that has happened. Even last winter had one (even if it did occur in October).

Regardless, people aint seen nothing if they think this is as bad as it gets. I do think there is still potential for a lot of tricks up this storm's sleeve....as long as people don't get to unrealistic. I could see a bit more snow on the front end for many, and the CAD in the interior has looked more impressive today. You can actually see the higher pressure isobars advancing SW during the latter stages of the the first event.

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Lets never, ever bring up that analog until it is time..lol.

I take blame for this because I brought it up a lot with stratospheric analogs etc. The amount of snow and devastation it produced was not meant to be the analogous part as much as a deep coastal storm and similar h5 setup with warm air.

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I take blame for this because I brought it up a lot with stratospheric analogs etc. The amount of snow and devastation it produced was not meant to be the analogous part as much as a deep coastal storm and similar h5 setup with warm air.

I tried with 6 posts to say the same thing but obviously some do not understand what analogs are.
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For the record, NCEP has seen everything but the 12z Euro and they're riding the 0z Euro/12z GFS compromise noting that the CMC has some issues with the speed/placement in the first complex.12Z NAM/GFS/UKMET/CMC MODEL EVALUATION

MODEL INITIALIZATION ERRORS APPEAR NEGLIGIBLE FOR THE SHORT RANGE

FORECAST.

***UPPER LEVEL LOW CURRENTLY OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST***

PREFERENCE: 00Z ECMWF/12Z GFS

CONFIDENCE: AVERAGE

THROUGH THE FIRST 36 HOURS OF THE FORECAST PERIOD, THE 12Z NAM IS

IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER MODELS IN THE HANDLING OF THIS

SHORTWAVE. AFTER THIS TIME, THE SURFACE LOW POSITION IS SLIGHTLY

BEHIND THE CONSENSUS OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST, AND IS ONE OF THE

DEEPER SOLUTIONS AS IT APPROACHES THE GREAT LAKES. ALOFT, THE

500MB TROUGH WITH THE NAM IS MUCH MORE PRONOUNCED OVER THE GREAT

LAKES AT 48 HOURS AND BEYOND COMPARED TO THE OTHER 00Z MODELS.

THE 12Z GFS IS COMPARABLE TO THE MODEL CONSENSUS, WHEREAS THE CMC

IS AN OUTLIER WITH THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH BEING TOO FAR WEST OVER

THE UPPER MIDWEST.

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I take blame for this because I brought it up a lot with stratospheric analogs etc. The amount of snow and devastation it produced was not meant to be the analogous part as much as a deep coastal storm and similar h5 setup with warm air.

Oh no...LOL, not at all. I'm referring to the CPC analog which had the Dec '92 nor'easter date as an analog. I know why they did it...there were some H5 similarities, but that storm was what...maybe 1-50 year deal perhaps?

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